The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association is calling for a nationwide boycott of the advertisers of the suburban New York newspaper that published online maps revealing names and addresses of people with pistol permits.

**SNIP**

The group is encouraging concerned citizens to contact national and local advertisers who use the Journal News  including Best Buy, CVS, IKEA and Target, among others  and tell them to stop running ads until the list of lower Hudson Valley pistol license holders is off the Web.

It would be more effective to send them a notice of intent to sue if you as one of the listed registered gun owners is affected by assault or break in. Let them know that you will mount a class action law suit against all advertisers as responsible by enabling this maverick newspaper to put your life and property in danger along with many others. Tell them you will find the most savage contingency lawyer to work on this. Boycotts are dumb. You probably need their products more than they need you. The lawyers can do far more damage and they know it.

What needs to be made clear to the actors in this little drama is that this is terrorism - soft terrorism, to be sure, but terrorism still - and that should it devolve to violence the ones who encouraged it will be held accountable. Take names - the editors, the reporters, the “expert” analysts. And make it clear that if gun owners are not safe because of their activity, neither are they. We didn’t start this.

It will definitely work against Best Buy, they’re going down for the third time and likely to go out of business anyway. Target is a good target also and deserves to be brought down for the list of lib crap they’ve done over the years.

I think the boycott is a good idea. If somebody published an on-line petition to send to these advertisers Id certainly sign it. But, I have to say, I stopped using all of those advertisers for one reason or another. I also stopped using Starbucks, JC Pennies and a few others over their socially responsible political stands long ago. I think companies that join the liberal mindset should pay a price for it.

If it’s part of the public record, they’re allowed to print it... They have that right.

We have rights too. We can stop buying everything liberal elites puts out: newspapers, magazines, movies, TV shows etc. Also, boycotting any national group that advertises in this rag - the Journal - will send a message.

They have rights and freedoms. We have rights and freedoms. Let’s exercise ours.

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posted on 01/01/2013 4:17:46 AM PST
by GOPJ
(It's not possible to be a Progressive and not be a hypocrite. Freeper TigersEye.)

Since they have made gun owners into targets, publish a list of people who do not own guns and make them targets. It would be like a shopping list for thieves.

It seems to me that if gun permits are a matter of public record, then one could make a list of public addresses that do not have permits associated with them.

Or better yet, publish a list of all the high level people at the paper (I wouldn’t include those who are not reporters or decision-makers), along with their addresses and whether or not they have a permit. You could add in any vocal supporters, especially celebrities. This would expose those who are unarmed and would also expose the hypocrites who are.

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posted on 01/01/2013 5:43:38 AM PST
by generally
(Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)

See my post #27. (I was typing while you were posting.) The picture is a plus.

I don’t wish ill on anyone, but it is time to fight fire with fire. My father taught me never to start a fight, but that if someone else started one, to hit back hard, and end it.

I am not sure whether the jerks who publish this stuff do so because they fail to think it through and don’t realize that they are putting people in jeopardy or because they do think it through and don’t care that they are putting others in jeopardy. In either case, it’s time to retaliate in kind.

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posted on 01/01/2013 5:50:23 AM PST
by generally
(Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)

Since they have made gun owners into targets, publish a list of people who do not own guns and make them targets.

One of the other posters suggested a class action suit. I think that may happen. Id want to be as far away from a countersuit as possible. What the paper did is unconscionable and potentially actionable. Once a lawsuit materializes no other paper will do anything so foolish as this.

Cut off the head of the snake before it can bite again.
True, but Im getting tired of fighting Medusa.”

Medusa saw her own face, turned to stone, & got her head cut off. All the snakes died. Not the classical scholar here, but I think the Hydra headed monster is more apt.

Anyway, how about that guy who collected all the subscription cards from all the magazines in the local library, filled in the proud gungrabber’s Googled address, then watched in glee as the postman delivered bags & bags of unsolicited mail to the jerk’s house which he was helpless to stop.

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posted on 01/01/2013 6:21:27 AM PST
by elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")

The paper has in effect cased the homes in the county for the criminal element. The district attorney should charge them with being complicit with the crime before the fact with the first crime committed in the county where a home is broken into.

Publicize as much “free” information about any known employees of the paper, and point out that they are probably unarmed and unable to defend themselves, their families, or their ill-gotten gains from being lib puppets.

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